CBS Sunday Morning contributor Nancy Giles is a comedian, actress, and social commentator. Since 2002, her work on the Peabody Award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning" has earned her 5 Emmy Awards for their unique blend of common-sense wisdom, laugh-out-loud humor, social and political commentary, and interviews. A funny, perceptive, and provocative observer of today’s world, Giles examines topics ranging from politics and race to pop culture and body image. Giles has been a guest on MNSBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” “The Beat with Ari Melber,” and “All In with Chris Hayes.”
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CBS Sunday Morning contributor Nancy Giles is a comedian, actress, and social commentator. Since 2002, her work on the Peabody Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” has earned her 5 Emmy Awards for their unique blend of common-sense wisdom, laugh-out-loud humor, social and political commentary, and interviews. A funny, perceptive, and provocative observer of today’s world, Giles examines topics ranging from politics and race to pop culture and body image. Giles has been a guest on MNSBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” “The Beat with Ari Melber,” and “All In with Chris Hayes.”
She is a veteran of Chicago’s esteemed Second City improv troupe, appeared Off-Broadway in Nora & Delia Ephron’s “Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and won the Theatre World Award for the musical “Mayor.” Giles was one of the stars of the acclaimed series “China Beach,” and the sitcom “Delta.” She’s appeared on both “Law & Order” and “Law & Order SVU” and was featured in the films “Big,” “Working Girl,” “True Crime,” and “Irrational Man.” Her solo shows include “Black Comedy: The Wacky Side of Racism,” “Notes of a Negro Neurotic,” “Things My Afro Taught Me,” and “The Further Adventures of the Accidental Pundette,” which The New Yorker called “..the surprise of this (annual) festival…a rocking standup comedy.”
An accomplished voiceover and radio artist, Giles credits include network promos for Food Network, Logo, USA Network, Lifetime, and ABC Daytime; and national spots for The New York Times, Tide, True Value, and countless pharmaceuticals. Her cartoon voices have been heard on shows on Nickelodeon and The Disney Channel. Giles also won back-to-back Gracie Awards from the Alliance of Women in Media for “Giles and Moriarty,” a CBS Radio talk show with CBS correspondent Erin Moriarty.
Her podcast, “The Giles Files” takes a lively spin on trending topics – from pop culture to politics, with interviews, commentaries, song parodies, and more.
For more than 30 years, Giles has been a volunteer with The 52nd Street Project, helping at-risk kids take part in acting, playwriting, filmmaking, poetry, dance, and other art workshops, classes, and performances.
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